Thank you for writing this. I have been that person misapprehending the position that organised labour holds in our movement. Not that I have ever been a scab, in deed or in spirit – in fact, I have been at the sharp end of several strikes throughout my time as a university student, and I have always have supported my lecturers during th…
Thank you for writing this. I have been that person misapprehending the position that organised labour holds in our movement. Not that I have ever been a scab, in deed or in spirit – in fact, I have been at the sharp end of several strikes throughout my time as a university student, and I have always have supported my lecturers during their action. I've even made sure to let them know, as several of my classmates have been entitled little shits about it 🙄
On a lighter note, I find it fascinating that you describe Nick as "[having] a strong British accent, which meant I could only catch around three of every four words he used, as a baseline." He and I are from the same region of England for accentual purposes, and the only major difference between our accents is that he shows a lot of American influence which I don't have from where I've never lived there. I would have said that we have the most intelligible kind of British accent, and it's very interesting that you disagree. Divided by a common language indeed. (To tell you the truth, it's quite nice to inhabit the role of "strong accent haver" for once! British culture very rarely codes my kind of accent as marked, which is a shame because all accents are marked from the standpoint of linguistics.)
Thank you for writing this. I have been that person misapprehending the position that organised labour holds in our movement. Not that I have ever been a scab, in deed or in spirit – in fact, I have been at the sharp end of several strikes throughout my time as a university student, and I have always have supported my lecturers during their action. I've even made sure to let them know, as several of my classmates have been entitled little shits about it 🙄
On a lighter note, I find it fascinating that you describe Nick as "[having] a strong British accent, which meant I could only catch around three of every four words he used, as a baseline." He and I are from the same region of England for accentual purposes, and the only major difference between our accents is that he shows a lot of American influence which I don't have from where I've never lived there. I would have said that we have the most intelligible kind of British accent, and it's very interesting that you disagree. Divided by a common language indeed. (To tell you the truth, it's quite nice to inhabit the role of "strong accent haver" for once! British culture very rarely codes my kind of accent as marked, which is a shame because all accents are marked from the standpoint of linguistics.)